From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 05:01:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA19839 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 05:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dddc011.pr.osd.mil (dddc011.pr.osd.mil [134.152.65.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA19834 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 05:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from KylerK@PR.OSD.MIL) Received: by dddc011.pr.osd.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1CEBA9183DF8D111B4F700805FBBCB691BA988@dddc011.pr.osd.mil> From: "Kyler, Ken, Maj, OSD/P&R" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: MS-Word formats Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:01:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Word will take it either way. Generally the rtf extensions are registered to Word on Microsloth systems anyway. Ken Kyler -----Original Message----- From: TS Waterman [mailto:waterman@ricochet.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 2:42 AM To: Jerry Hicks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-Word formats Jerry Hicks writes: > >Usually the subject is how to read these from FreeBSD. I'm searching >for a way of doing the opposite, that is producing a .DOC file usable >by MS-Word. > >I don't have Word but am wondering if it suffices to produce RTF >output from FreeBSD and simply name it with the .DOC extension? I'm quite sure that you can make an RTF file, and give it a ".rtf" extension. That works fine. I've done it many a time. I think Word'll get confused if you give it a .doc tag without it really being a .doc file. --ts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message